Iran warns: Hotels hosting United States troops could become targets

A big flag of Iran waving in the wind in Tehran, Iran.

Iran’s military has warned that hotels housing US soldiers across the region would be targets in its war with the United States and Israel.

“When all the Americans (forces) go into a hotel, then from our perspective that hotel becomes American,” armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi told state television on Thursday.

“Should we just stand by and let the Americans strike us? When we respond, naturally we have to strike wherever they are.”

On February 28, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering a war that spread across the Middle East.

The war has since spread across the Middle East, with Iran responding with drone and missile attacks on Israel and US interests in the region.

On Thursday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had accused US soldiers of using people in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries as “human shields”. Punch